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The title of this exhibition, The Necessity of a Wandering Consciousness, comes from a chapter by the social psychologist Daniel Wegner, in a book entitled The Scientific Approaches to Consciousness. Wegner’s text deals with the process by which the mind focuses and jumps, particularly as related to visual stimulus; conscious attentiveness is often at its most elusive when one tries to control it too much. [from Introduction by Ward Davenny]